Example sentences for: picayune

How can you use “picayune” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After one of the most extensive antitrust investigations in history (completed by the Justice Department when the FTC failed to issue a complaint), the government found only a single, rather picayune practice--the so-called "per processor" license--worthy of challenge.

  • In half an hour of questions, reporters manage to glean nothing--not a single picayune detail--except the obvious fact that Clinton's lawyers have barred any public discussion.

  • Not long ago a newspaper column (in the New Orleans Times-Picayune ) about fishing rods contained the following sentence: "Nothing has been overhyped more in recent years than the value of ball bearings in reel construction."

  • Here are two picayune but quite common details of the separated life that Culturebox, for one, has never seen on a TV series before.

  • News and Time gushed about "Clintonism," the Standard offers its own definition (pegged to the State of the Union): "Clintonism transforms your most parochial worries into matters of state," dealing with picayune issues rather than genuine ones.


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